'Supernatural': Dean Winchester's School for the Soulless

Well,
"Supernatural" fans, Sam Winchester (
Jared Padalecki) still doesn't have a soul, and he won't be getting it back any time soon. In the meantime, Dean (
Jensen Ackles) is doing his best to teach Sam how to at least pretend to have normal human emotions.

In the last episode, Sam finally admitted that he's not really Sam. "All that blah-blah-blah about being the old me? Crap," he confessed. "I don't even really care about you, except that I need your help, and you're clearly not going to stick around for much longer if I don't give it to you straight."

Since Dean isn't really a fan of hanging around with Robo-Sam, in next week's episode, he's going to try to give Sam some pointers on, well, not being a total jerk. While the brothers are hunting what seems to be an alien, Sam makes a bizarre query.

"Okay, look, this brings up a question. So, say you've got a soul, and you're on a case, and your brother gets abducted by aliens," he asks. "What about when there are no more leads for the night? I mean, you're supposed to just sit there in the dark and suffer, even when there's nothing that can be done at that moment?"

"Yes!" Dean says. "You sit in the dark and you feel the loss."

"Absolutely, but couldn't I just do all that,
and have sex with the hippie chick? It would be in the dark."

We can't decide if this is funny or really, really sad, but we like this new approach.